The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


IT has been computed that tho death rate Of
the globe is sixty-seven minute, 81, 100 q day
and 1868, 835 a year, and the birth rate
seventy minute, 100, 800 day, and Sc, 1872 600 &
year
A LARGE silver-maple tree in Middletown, Ill.
grew from a twig which traveller stuck into
the ground while passing through the village in
1870 The tree now measures 16 feet in circun
| ference.
THE Berlin police photograph criminals ii
profile so as to show the left ear. The theory is
that the features of the face change, but the ear
does not, and also that no two persons have
| identical ears
LADIES who powder their hair with golddust,
to give it a sunny appearance, are doing nothing
new. If they will look in the 18th chapter, book
viii, of JOsephus, they will find the same fashion
| existed in the time of Solomon.
| A RosCoaIMoN county OIich) woman, who
| was trying to put out a fire on the roof of her
| house, was blown from the building by high
wind and her arm was broken. In spite of her
sufferings she climbed to the roof twice after
| ward and put out the fire. When il was all
over she tainted.
| A COOK in q Nashville hotel who is short
sighted has been much troubled by excursions
Of rats into his kitchen. The other day he pre-
pared himself for them, and seeing one close to
him, as he supposed, fired revolver at it. His
aim was good, if his sight was bad, and the bull
let went through his foot
In Turkestan every wedding engagement be-
gins with the payment of substantial consd-
GRAFTON to the girls parents If the girl ilts her
lover the engagement gift has to be returned
unless the parents have another daughter to
give as substitute The plan is said to work
| well and results in few divorces.
A PHILADELPHIA FIRM makes a practice of
oar tTip 1pH ,rith Law
ender ribbons, on which are embroidered the
words, "One Hundred Years" to each woman
in the State who lives to celebrate her one hun
dreth birthday. The latest recipient of the cap
was Mrs. Mary Drummer of Derry, who was
born May II, 1887.
a LARGE number of poor, oppressed brewers
OF San Francisco struck the other day against
the hydra headed monster Capital. They pa
raded through the streets CARRYING banner
stating that they were Slaves Striking for
Freedom" And every slave in the line had on
a broadcloth coat, high hat and sported q
buttonhole bouquet.
A TRAVELLER through Mexico saw at a noun
tain station a tall, bulky Mexican with gigantic
frame and baby face, who would have excited
admiration anywhere. He wore an enormous
hat hung with at least 500 worth of silver hill
lion, was armed with revolver and rifle, and
had down each seam of his trousers q row of
skulls and crossbones in solid silver each skull
as big as dollar Everybody enjoyed the APP
pearance Of this splendid person, and no one
more than he himself.
DURING the epidemic of yellow fever which
prevailed the first year in Caracas a physician
had an opportunity to see monkey with an I'M
doubted case of that disease The principal
symptoms manifested themselves in manner
so marked that there remained not the least
doubt. For three days the poor animal re-
manned III sad condition, each day growing
worse, and presenting in succession the symp-
toms described, until the fourth day, when the
case terminated fatally
A NATIVE COLONEL has arrived in Cairo from
Suakim who was formerly under Gordon at
Khartoum. He gives an account of the fallIpf
Khartoum not differing from the majority of
such narratives, except that he states that there
was no treachery. The town was carried by as
sault, owing to the exhaustion of the soldiers
from want of food. He asserts that Gen. Cor
don was buried inside the palace. and that the
Mahdi was angry at his death The officer will
be tried by court-martial.
A sNAILs PACE need not be used any longer
as a term more or less indefinite. By an inter-
esting experiment at the Terre Haute Polytech-
mic the other day it was ascertained exactly
and reduced to figures, which may now be
quoted by persons who favor the use of exact
terms. half dozen of the molluSks were per-
United to crawl between two points ten feet
apart, and the average pace was aScertained.
From this it was easy enough to calculate that
one snail can crawl mile in lust fourteen DAYS
SOME MONTHS AGO Miss Mary Kovar and
Charles Vanek, of East Grand Forks, Oak, were
at social gathering, ami just for fun played
the part of bride and groom in q mock mar
riage. 1t happened that the man who person
sted the clergyman was Justice of the Peace,
and on the strength of this Vanek who is an
elderly man, recently insisted that Miss Kovar
should go with him to his claim shanty as mis-
tress of his home. She refused, and vehemently
l fafaA bob, I.
notice to the young men in the settlement to
keep away from his wife, and proposes to test
the legality of the marriage in the courts.
A NEW WAY of bridling the Anarchistic
| speeches of Herr Most has been found by the
| Newark On. j. Board of Excise, which at a
! meeting on Tuesday evening adopted a resolu-
| ton stating that it having come to the know
| ledge OF the board that person commonly
| known as John Most had been permitted to ad-
| dress gathering in public hall, near Orange
| in language of an incendiary and revolutionary
| character, the board gave notice to any licensed
| saloonkeeper who might permit such an uplaw-
full gathering in any public hall or place for
which license has been issued, that upon the
repetition of such a gathering the license of the
proprietor would be revoked without further
notice.
MORRIS JOHNSON, of indianapolis, once a
skilled mechanic, lost his place because he lost
three fingers from his right hand and could not
hoIh nc u anu became QlScOur-
aged because he made so little Then he took to
drinking, and his wife took in washing The
other day he came home intoxicated, went IN
stairs, took off his boots seized his revolver and
softly crept down again. AS he entered the
kitchen where his wife was washing "a neighbor
entered side door. She could not see Mrs
johnson, but she saw Mr.. johnson point the
revolver at something and so she jumped and
grabbed it, johnson fired twice, but the neigh
boris grasp prevented good aim. and then he
ran up stairs and with one more shot killed him
self.
THE noble house OF Tollemache-Earl of
Dysart-s noted for its peculiarities, in the
matter of names for one thing. A junior men,
Der few years ago named his two daughters
Mabel Helmingham Ethel Huntingtower Beat
rice Blazenberrie Evangeline Wise de Louisa de
Orleana Plantagenet Tordmeg Saxonia, and
Lyonesse Matilda Dora Ida Agnes Ernestine
Curzon-Paulet Wilbraham joyce Eugenie Rent
ley SaXonia Eysart Plantagenet. Worse still II
is rumored that the Archduchess Marie Pbillin-
pima Sake Coburg Guelph Theresa Annette in
Llama SchwartZburg de Hesse Cassell Hobenzol-
Tern Naline is betrothed to the Archduke Franz
Henry Joseph Charles Matthew Mark Inllean
John Ferdinand Louis Palmitoff di Nicaragua
Canal ID Este, Jr eldest son of the Archdlllle
Franz Henry Joseph Charles Matthew Mark
LukeaSJohn Ferdinand Louis Palmtoff di Mica
ragua Canal ID Este Karl Ludwig ESQ. of Ans
tria: Printing being expensive, there viii be no
cards.
NINE. ZELENoGoEoFF the widow of Capt.